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27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h

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Message #46 received at 45012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 45012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45012: 27.1.50;
 Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:36:25 -0700

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020 um 19:10 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>>
>> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
>> > Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 18:52:26 +0100
>> >
>> > The release archive for Emacs 27.1 as distributed on ftp.gnu.org is
>> > missing the emacs-module.h header.
>>
>> This happens because emacs-module.h was removed from make-dist, in
>> this commit:
>>
>>   commit 1043cd30acffcc0b61da4a80dcf3f8a5ac459267
>>   Author:     Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>>   AuthorDate: Sat Jun 8 14:08:05 2019 -0700
>>   Commit:     Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>>   CommitDate: Sat Jun 8 14:42:10 2019 -0700
>>
>>       Fix out-of-source make-dist problems
>>
>>       Problem with jisx2131-filter reported by Phillip Lord in:
>>       https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-06/msg00147.html
>>       * admin/charsets/Makefile.in (SED_SCRIPT):
>>       Put it in $(srcdir), which is not necessarily the working directory.
>>       ($(SED_SCRIPT)): Rename from jisx2131-filter.  All uses changed.
>>       (clean): Do not remove SED_SCRIPT.
>>       (extraclean): Remove it here instead.
>>       * make-dist (possibly_non_vc_files): Remove src/emacs-module.h.
>>       Although it is portable and could be distributed in the tarball,
>>       it's too much hassle to do that, so let each builder make it.
>>
>> Wasn't there some discussion about the problems with distributing it,
>> as it is not entirely portable?
>
> If so, then we need to fix that. emacs-module.h must be 100% portable.

Paul, do you have any opinion here?  The discussion shows that Eli
thought at the time that it's not really worth doing much about this.

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